The purpose of Northwest Colony Mobile Community is simple: to stop or slow the displacement of manufactured home families. In Washington state, over 60,000 families live in manufactured home parks. When these parks are sold for development, the human cost is often ignored. We exist to ensure that families are not treated as an afterthought.
We are fighting to move the “Opportunity to Compete” window from an impossible 70 days to a realistic one year. We are advocating to change the legal language from a mere “Opportunity to Compete” to a First Opportunity to Purchase. This change ensures that tenants are not just “entitled to bid,” but are legally entitled to the first right to secure their land, giving them the correct rights they deserve during a sale.
Colony has successfully invoked and protected its First Right of Refusal.
Members who sign and notarize paperwork transfer their Right of Refusal to the NWCMC under Baer – David Dobson. This mechanism strengthens our collective ability to slow or legally challenge harmful redevelopment.
Northwest Colony Mobile Community does not guarantee that development can be stopped. However, we will fight vigorously for every tenant’s rights and ensure no legal protections are overlooked.
Our primary long-term goal is to stop the displacement of manufactured home tenants. For any tenants who are displaced, we aim to re-house them in a new location on property that our organization owns. This is accomplished through a powerful teamwork effort among all partnering organizations to re-house displaced manufactured home tenants across the state of Washington and, eventually, throughout the country as NWCMC expands.
